The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


AFFA1kO VI The kAILWA1Ns
Personal aud Local.
n. B. Hammond. receiver Of the l., D. & S.
road, left New York last evening for the West.
The Pennsylvania Company is expanding &c.,
006 in improvements to their property at New
Albany, Ind.
Ticket Scalper De Land, who represents Mul-
ford q Mckenzie at this point, If seriously i'll
with infammatory rheumatism.
The Indianapolis Decatur & Springfield road
earned in the 1856 $451, 901 against $685., 99l
in the year 1885; increase last year, $63, $40.
The Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago road earned.
the lrst week in January, $l4. $50, an increase
over earnings for the corresponding week of
1886 of $7,184
For the month Of December the output at the
Brazil mines was 5000 cars of coal. OF this the |
G. q p. !. carried out 900 carloads. the G. q |
l. q. l,6O0 and the Vandalia 500.
Two OF the local passenger agents have noti- |
fed the Passenger Agents Association that they |
no longer consider themselves bound to the |
agreement to close their Offices at 6:30 P. NJ.
M. E. ingalls,, president of the c., l., St L. & |
G., and Orlando b. Smith, president of the c., |
W. q B.. are in Washington, D. c.. endeavor-
ing to set the Congressman right on the inter- |
state commerce bill.
This year the Pennsylvania Company will
erect an immense freight depot at Louisville |
KY 1t will be built of brick, resting on stone
foundations and much after the plan Of their
main depot at Indianapolis
The prosperous times with the railroads is
reaching into every department. on most Of the
roads In the country. At their shops they are
crowded with work. increasing the number of
employees and working overtime.
| James J. Hill, president of the Manitoba road,
and who heads the list of big railroad men of the
| Northwest, commenced, few years ago. as
ticket-seller. He is worth at least $40, OOO,-
600, making him the wealthiest man in the
| Northwest
A. w. Quackenbush formerly of Fort Wayne,
| who was promoted to master mechanic at Mo-
| berry, NO., few weeks ago. has been promoted
| to superintendent of motive power and ma
| chnery for all the Wabash lines west of the
Mississippi.
The c., l., st. L. & c. will in few days have
| their system of weather-signal service we'll in
operation; then people along the line, by calling
| at any CT the telegraph stations. can learn what
| is to be the character of the weather the next
| twenty-four hours.
The corps of civil engineers of the Chicago &
| Indiana Coal road are at Roseve this week
| making surveys for the laying of track and the
| opening of new mines at that point. With the
opening of new coal mines the little village is
| periencing quite boom.
The extension of the Chicago & Indiana Coal
road from Fair Oaks to Lacrosse is completed,
and on Thursday the officials of the road made
] trip over the extension and pronounced it good
At Lacrosse the C. & I. c. makes connection
with the Chicago & West Michigan road
The G.. l., St l.. & c. is taking about 10 per
cent. OF the east-bound business out of Chicago,
and competitors are querying as to whether the
road is living strictly up to rates. The fact OF
the business is that there some live men hold
of the B. & o. Kankakee dispatch, and they are
gathering III the business.
Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany very reticent. it is stated about the re-
cent purchase OF river-front property in New
York, said to be for that company. 1t is re-
ported from New York that the purchase was
made in the interest of a syndicate which is not
} | yet ready to divulge its plans
No official announcement has been made as
! yet of G. O. Sculls connection with the passen-
ger department of the B. & O. railroad, but
when promulgated it will be that Of assistant
] general passenger agent. It is stated that Mr..
Scull is very much pleased with his new posi-
ton, which pays him 81, 600 year.
One of the roads out of here is cutting rates
on Washington and Baltimore business working
it in connection with the Baltimore & Ohio. A
competing line has asked the B. & O. people to
explain how it is that their competitor can cut
the rate as much as the prorate on regular tariff
if rEs 3. & o. is not sharing proportionately In
the cut
c. c. F. Bent now signs his name to orders a.
t superintendent of the Ohio & Mississippi drop
: ping the word general. 1t is stated that j. F.
Bernard, the president, is taking the general
management of the affairs IF the road, and. as
= one of the minor officials puts it, is nosinf
| matters.
If little more care were exercised in maxim g
the train reports on the bulletin board at the
Union Depot, it would be appreciated by the
!, travelling public. When train is reported one
o hour late, and half hour later is reported two
| or four hours late, the first report should Ger
tainly be rubbed off Of the board and correct
q report substituted.
t Col. George Northup will be released from
q Anchorage Insane Asylum to-day. and will at
l rat IN ia at he
n Fifth-avenue Hotel, Louisville Ky. His reason
q is restored. and he will, it is thought take
a charge of the Pennsylvania Company's passen
q ger interests, returning to the position he hai
d held for twenty years so successfully.
= A good many critics of the interstate com
e merce bill overlook the phrase under similar
# circumstances and conditions" in the long and
shorthaul section. large proportion of tn,
suggested as likely to arise under the bill ar,
under conditions and circumstances entirely dis
similar, and therefore outside the scope Of tn
IS bill
John r. Elder, president of the Shell Beacl
:. road received a letter from Superintendent
Spellman, yesterday, in which he stated that til
Y grading for the forty-mile extension was com
5 pleted, and that Monday last the construction
rate of a mile and a half per day. The weathe
r. in Louisiana Is pleasant and very favorable t
r. pushing the work.
Superintendent Nelson, of the c., 81. & D
h lines. spent yesterday in the city looking oye
20 matters. Mr. Nelson says that unquestionably
20 should the c.. h & l. division continue to sho,
>. as handsome earnings the remainder of the con
. panys fiscal year, this division will show n
8 deficit for the first time since the O., 81. & I
y people took control OF the property, notwitf
IL standing the fact that extensive improvement
have been made to the road-bed and equipments
which are charged up to operating expenses.
John Booth, of this city, worthy mechanic
CO some sixty years Of age. short time since 81
UT cured letters patent sde-balauce valve fo
,y steam engines. The invention was put in serv
\. ice on number of stationary engines in thi
city and performed very satisfactorily, and
few days since Mr. Booth prevailed on Maste